job cut to quarter size!

[MATTMOSS]

I have your picture up on my living room wall Matt!!

 

Really? the fact that you have a picture of me on your living room wall when I don't know you scares me.

Please tell me you mean my avatar picture?

If not, Steve please delete my account.

[Darrin Turnbull]

I was asked to dismantle and fell about 100 ton of unsafe beech trees for a local charity, they were not wanting to spend much money on the job so i agreed to carry out the work and my payment would be the timber. I was passing the other day and noticed one of the trees had been felled, when i asked the guy in charge he said they only wanted me to remove 1 large beech 1 med beech and a med pine that were beside the main road as they had a guy from the village felling the rest. Basically the jobs been cut by 75 ton! i had arranged to sell the timber to a firewood dealer so am now letting him down. Pissed me off a tad.

 

I am thinking about telling them to get on with it without me,

 

 

 

What would you do?

 

 

I would think you're due some kind of compensation. Good luck

[peatff]

Just tell them you were doing it on the understanding you got it all and if that's not the case you want paying for the job.

[Stubby]

Walk away ,now !!

 

Same .

[openspaceman]

Same .

 

Me too, small charities are a law unto themselves often with much cronyism involved best avoided unless one of the cronies.

[felixthelogchopper]

Walk away, unless you can blag having the wood that has been felled already by the other cutter. You have no obligation as any contract you might have had has been unilaterally altered by the charity so if they get snotty you should mention breach of contract to watch them squirm.

[philip2011]

All or nothing in my eyes Indian giving what they are doing if you dont get all the wood then walk away charity or not they have money and you have been rather flexible in saying you will do the work in return for the wood a deal is a deal

[TGB]

Did you have a verbal agreement of is it down in writing, either on paper or in saved emails? If it's just a verbal agreement, walk away before they change what they think you're entitled to again. If you had a more concrete contract, then they've broken it and you're owed something.

[Pete Mctree]

They are having the best & you the worst out of the deal. I would explain that the easy stuff pays for the rest, so they have 2 options. Either pay for the works on the reduced contract or let you have the timber as per the origonal spec.

I'd be very tempted to walk away & leave them too it.

[felixthelogchopper]

I wouldn't bother pursuing the breach of contract as the rewards v hassle ratio doesn't balance out. It's worth keeping up your sleeve if they get silly when you tell them that you will only be doing the other trees now if they accept a quote from you for the work. If they accept your quote then do it as a normal paying job. If they don't, let somebody else do it for peanuts.